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I WILLIAM E. JONES. AUGUSTA, Ga. THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 11 1839 .. ~
- ■ VOL 111. — No. 49.
THE C'HHO.MCLE AND SESTIXEL
PUBLISHED,
daily, tri-weekly, and weekly,
At No. Broad-street.
terms:
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Weekly paper, Three Dollars in advance, or Four at
, the the end of year.
CMIIONICLK AND SKNTINRL.
P AUdUSTA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 10.
The communication of 11 Homer” in tliis morn
ing’s paper is from the pen of one of our most
practical financiers in the city, and the suggestion
which he makes, for the purpose of giving relief
to our citizen , is to us new, and we think most
I excellent.
The steam ship Great Western lett Bristol on
(’i -MJ of March, which was her regular day of
■ udng, and was expected to arrive at New \ ork
on Sunday last. She will sail from New York,
1 on her return, on the 20th instant.
Reduction Convention.
Burke —Berrien, Lawson, Harris, Marsh.
Bulloch —Denmark, Cone.
Bulls —Daily, Stark, Lindsay.
Cuss —Terhune, Mays, and Pitts.
Coweta —Long, U. Sims, sen., Echols, Dell.
Carroll— Beal, Chandler, Springer.
DeKalb —Ballengcr, Diamond, Murphcy, and
Palmer.
Early —Wilson, Patterson, Speight.
Elbert —Allen, White, Heard, Oliver.
Franklin. —Freeman, R. Mitchell, W, M.
Harris —Crawford, Redding, Cato, Jones.
Mitchell, and Patrick.
Habersham. —Watford, Cleveland, Carter, and
Barkley.
Jasper —Burney, Jordan, Wright, Shropshire
Lincoln. —Stokes, Parks, and Uerkly.
Meriwether —Render, Scnlell, Fletcher, Per
due.
Madison —Groves, Strickland, Harris.
Mclntosh —Jas. Troup, LeFiles, Hopkins.
Oglethorpe —Hardeman, Sims, Taylor, Jr.’
Thomas.
Paulding —Walthall, Brison, Hubbard.
Pike —Adams, Martin, Neal, Pope.
Randolph —Conyers, McLendon, Brook.
Rabun. —Langston and Coffee.
Scriven —Perry, Hamplney, W „do.
Stewart —Boyenton, Gardner, Wood, and
Gresham.
Troup —Dougherty, Haralson, Fears, Beasley,
Phillips.
Telfair— McCall, Mooney.
Union. Chastain and Butt.
Walton. —Echols, Gresham, Mitchell, and
Moss.
For the Chronicle d' Sentinel.
The Money Market.
The present state of money affairs in this city )
is the all engrossing topic of conversation and
interest. Our Banks have been severely censured:
whether Justly or not, to —>• present intention
to intimate an opinion. That our community is
much alarmed at the withholding of all facilities
usually granted by our Banks, is not to be won
dered at: itiJvnd the symptoms of trouble and dis
tress, alre*dy begin to be manifest. The best pa
_nr .t short time cannot he discounted. Nose”
Uvl j
t ..rilies will command money. It is quite evident,
that if this state of tilings continues long, the
/ injury that Augusta will sustain will be almost
' incalculable. Embarrassments, failures, depro
. cialion of all stocks, real estate, &c., and finally
B the best portion of the trade we now possess,
transferred to the city of Charleston; these are,'
the inevitable results. The loss and ruin, will be
general: felt by all! and by none more severely
than the Banks and owners of real estate. The
now to be considered, is not who is to
blame I this Bank, or that Bank, or all the
Banks; Loco Focos or Whigs. But relief:—
Relief ere it is 'oo late. Many of our worthy,
industrious and esteemed citizens, shop kcepers >
mechanics, &c., who are perfectly responsible,
are in actual danger of suffering protest, and th c
consequent loss of credit, when the trilling loan
of one or two thousand dollars, would make them
comfortable, give them time to collect, curtail
oad arrange their affairs so as to pass through the
or unscathed, and save their credit and
-property from sacrifice. On looking casually
«.or the reports of our Banks on the Ist inst. it
n ■ irs quite evident to me, they cannot with pru,
d„a or safety increase their line of discounts,
hv .he issue of their own notes: that our Banks
,i in a sound condition, there is not a particle op
ooubt. The Banks of Augusta may challenge a
comparison with the Banks of any city in the
Union, as regards thcir,available cash means to re
i. d 1 i promptly, all their liabilities. But the mi.
' settled and unusual state of our paper curren
cy, and the singular state of exchanges, forbids
such issue. The miserable and selfish policy of
'■*" rigorous specie settlements of weekly balances
now practised by our Banks must be abandoned :
It effectually prevents them from issuing their
own notes! What Bank can discount at 7pr cb
per annum, and pay out her own notes, which
must be redeemed on the following Monday with
•pecie, or its equivalent, at an actual cost of 1 A to
2 per contl This system of redeeming balances
weekly, not only directly prevents thc Banks
from issuing their own notes, hut induces them
to hold up and collect the notes of each other!
Thus the whole strength of thc Banks is exer ed
ill curtailing the circulation of each oilier. It is
not surprising their circulation is so small. This
gross error must he rectified: instead of settling
weekly balances at a profit to the creditor Dank
let them be settled at, say six per cent interest.—>
Let this plan he agreed upon by all the banks, and
then rely upon it, the banks will soon be able to
discount again. Let them do away with thi sul
fish policy of making money out of each other by
weekly balances, and you may rest assured, llnq
instead ot collecting and holding up cacn others
notes, they will all be very glad to discount good
paper anti pay them out. Had the plan of settling
weekly balances at (i per cent interest, been adopted
lust October, and strictly adhered to, the situation
of money matters in Augusta, at this moment,
would be comfortable. The adoption of this
plan at this season of the year, under existing
circumstances, while the circulation of our Dank s
is tending home, and exchange on the north so
much against us, will not afford immediate and
sufficient relief, but will tend much to mitigate
the pressure, and would eventually bring things
right again. As yet no plan of relief appears to
have been adopted, although a meeting of the chi'
zens was convened, a Committee appointed to
correspond with the Danks, &c., yet nothing
has been done. Without very mature considera
tion ot the subject I venture to suggest a scheme
of relief; which, though it may not be approved
01, may be the means of railing the attention ot
some of our able financiers (if any there be among
us) to the subject; and eliciting such action and
concert among our banks as may bring about a
more prosperous state of money affairs than exists
at present. Although our Dunks are in a sound
condition, yet, Augusta being the centre point
for furnishing exchange on the north, it will not
answer for them, under existing circumstances,
to issue their own notes to any extent, for the
purpose of discounting local paper. This canno 1
be done until the next fall, when the tide of cir
culation will set from the city to the country in
payment of the next crop of cotton. In the mean
time our citizens must suffer unless relief comes
in some shape. Confidence in the soundness and
ability of our Danks is unimpaired and undoubted
I suggest, therefore, that each Dank issue checks
of the denomination of fifty and one hundred
dollars to the extent of, say ten per cent on the
amount of their respective capitals, made payable
in New York, in January next. These checks to
be received on deposite and in payment of al]
debts due the Danks, at par. The same to be re
ceived at par by the Danks issuing them in all
ordinary business transactions and from all the
interior Danks in 5ememe,,,.,.... „
lections —and in weekly settlements, interest
to be allowed at six per cent if required. This
plan would enable our Danks to discount £350,000
to $lOO,OOO dollars ; it would afford immediate
and effectual relief to our suffering community !
|t would give us a safe domestic or home currency
(in lieu of Hawkinsvillc Dank notes, which now
constitutes half of the city circulation and is sus
tained, as is well understood by the virtual cn.
dorsement of the Danks of this city,) a currency
which cannot depreciate below the rate of what is
now termed “ current notes,” but as it progresses
to maturity will advance in value, according to the
rate of New York Exchange. Our Danks would
receive interest on these checks, Sixty day bills
purchased in October and November next —drawn
on the next cotton crop, will place funds in New
York to meet them. Our own Banks and our
citizens would thus be relieved and benefitted, and
the calamities which now threaten us, averted.—
Dy this scheme, all that is required of the Danks
is that they use their credit! Will they refuse it 1
If the plan docs not meet their views, let them
so amend and improve it that the desired object
may be accomplished. Ho.it ku.
v
ami West Point Railroad* -
Wo take great pleasure in being able to state
to our readers that the accomplishment of the
Montgomery and West Point Railroad, is now
placed beyond a doubt. We are informed that
the annual report of the company will soon be
ready for publication, which we shall lay before
our readers; in the mean time, we make the fol
lowing compendium from their report :
At a meeting held on the 11th ult. the follow
ing gentlemen were elected directors for the ensu
ing year: Charles T. Pollard, Abner M’Gchee,
Denajuh 8. Bibb, Jesse P. Taylor, Thomas M.
Cowles, Elbert A. Holt, Win. Taylor, Win. D.
8. Gilmer, N. E. Denson, James E. Scott, Eewis
Owen, John Gindrat, J. Wyman.
At a subsequent meeting of the board, C. T.
Pollard was unanimously re-elected President of
the company.
Dy an exhibit made to the board, it appears
that there is now, fifty-five miles of the road gra
duated, and twenty five miles of superstructure
laid down on the end of the road nearest Mont
gomery. One locomotive with all the neces
sary appendages, train of cars, &c. has al
ready been shipped from Ncw-Jcrscy, and is
on the way ; another will be completed
and shipped by the first of May next. Twenty
five miles or more of the road will be in complete
operation by the first of October next. The com
pany have thought it best to delay transportation
on the road until this time, that the portion which
they shall then open for use, may not be inferior
to that of any other in the southern States.
We have been shown a letter from the super
intendent of the Georgia railroad, by which it
appears that that company have submitted a pro
position to carry the mail from Augusta to Mont
gomery in 51 hours, and in about two weeks a
daily line will be started from Grecnshore in Geor
gia for the purpose. There is no doubt, therefore;
but lhat the Montgomery and West Point Rail
road will have a participation in the contract, and
be enabled to undertake it early in the ensuing
fall. 'Phis will indeed greatly add to the travel
ling and mail facilities between this and the north
and east.
The exhibit of the company further shows,
that they have already expended on work and
ma - rials $432,000.
For a furtherance of the project, the company
i t about to negotiate a loan upon the pledge of
s I lie road anil the real estate of each of the hull
s vidual stockholders, in proportion to the amount
r stock, i his they will no doubt he enabled to
do. and there will then be no longer any olrstruc
, lion to the llnal and complete accomplishment of
I this great, useful and noble enterprise. — [Alabama ,
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From the Richmond Whig.
The Never Tailing Argument.
To the charge recently made by Mr, Graves,
member of Congress from Ky., that the Post Mas
ter General kept in office “a wretch who was guil
ty ot forgery and counterfeiting, and who escaped
the fangs of the law only by turning states’ evi
dence, and that these facts were known to the
Post Master General.” Mr. Kendall replies, de
nying the charge, and apologizes for the ignoranac
oi the character ol his subordinate, because that,
“In December ISdti, the files of the appointment
Office were destroyed by the lire which consumed
the Post Office building. On those files were
probably papers then recently received, giving the
character of Smith, and their destruction saved
him from removal at the lime.”
This argument of the conflagration stands the
parly in good stead in all its straits ams difficul
ties. It accounts cannot be balanced, if money
is missing, il this or that officer is suspected of
criminal remissness or malversation in office, the
ready response is the Finn! the Fikk! This
everlasting argument ol the fire reminds us of the
memorable expedient ol honest Caleb Dalderslonc
in burning Moll’s Crag to preserve the credit
of the family of Kavenswood. We copy the ac
count of the circumstance to which we allude,
that the reader may see how precisely parallel the
cases are:
“Now this fire, said Caleb, for fire it ahull be,
it I suld burn the auld stable to make it muir feasi
ble—this lire, besides that it will be an excuse for
asking ony thing we went through the country—
this lire will settle money things on an honorable
footing for the family's credit, that cost iner
telling twenty lees to a wheen idle chaps and
what s waur, without gaining credence.”
“That was hard indeed, Caleb, Kavens
wood) but I do not see how this lire should help
your veracity or your credit.”
“ There it is now, said Caleb, wasna I saying
that young folk had a green judgment 1 How
sold it help me, quotha ! it will be a creditable
apology for the honor of the family for this score
of years to come, if it is weel guided. Where’s
the family picture’s says a meddling body—the
great fire at Wolf's crag answers I. Where’s (he
family plate 1 says another—the great fire says I :
who was to think of plate when life ami limb were
in danger 1 Where’s the wardrobe and the lin
ens 1 Where’s the tapestries decorments 1 beds
ot state, twills, ponds and testors, drapery and
broidered wark 1 The lire—llic lire—the lire 7
Guide the lire weel, and il sarve ye for a’ that ye
suld have and have not—and in some sort a good
excuse is better than the things themselves; for
they maun crack and wear out and be consumed
by time, whereas a gude offcome pnulcnllo and
creditably handled, mav serve, Lord kens how
long!”
V erily, Mr. Amos Kendall and Mr Levi Wood
bury have studied to some profit the life and char-
Crag. " “ ■ ■ .. \xr,,ip„
From the Norfolk Herald of the\th,
Tire and Loss of' Life S
Last night between 10 and 11 o’clock, afire
broke out in the Bast end of the new double brick
tenement on High street, Portsmouth, which des
troyed the entire building. It originated on the
lower floor, occupied as a book store, by Mr. Jo
seph Anderson and on which also was the Post
Office—from neither of which was any thing
considerable saved. In the second story was the
Printing Office of the Portsmouth Times, which
we sincerely regret to state, fell an entire prey to
the devouring flames, —not an atom having been
saved. The third story was occupied by the Odd
Fellows as their Lodge, and all therein was total
ly lost.
In the West end of the building was the tin
manufactory of Mr. Wm. D. Roberts, who suc
ceeded in saving bis entire stock, &c.—the upper
floors were unoccupied. The East end was own
ed by Mr. John Cocke and insured—the West
end by John W. Murdaugh, Esq., and not insu
red. Mr. Anderson’s bookstore was partially in
sured. Mr. Hill, the worthy and estimable Edi
tor of the Times has sustained a total loss—no
insurance.
But the most grievous part of the narrative re
mains to be told—Adjoining the conflagrated
building on the East, was a large frame house,
occupied by Mr. Thomas J. Godwin as a Cabi
,.net Manufactory and Warehouse, from which
•(Btarly all the furniture had been removed, when
the gable end and chimneys of the brick house
fell upon it, breaking through the roof and upper
floor. Mr. Godwin and several others were in the
house at the time, and we are pained to state that
Mr. G. perished under the mass of rubbish, mid
Mr. Nichols and Mr. Brooks were both badly,
though not dangerously hurt. The death of Mr.
Godwin is a loss to the community, and is deep
ly deplored by his fellow-citizens.
Trom New Brunswick.
The Legislature ofNew Brunswick was pro
rogued on the ‘23d ult. Before their adjourn
ment they agreed to an address to the Queen, in
which they invite her special attention to the
long disputed and important question of the
“North Eastern boundary of the United States,”
which they represent as involving the future
union, welfare, and prosperity of her Majesty's
North American possessions. They call her at
tention to the intelligence which will be commu
nicated by her representative in the province, of
the invasion of the province by an armed force
from llie state of Maine; and also to the value of
the territory in question to the American colonies
in general, and to New Brunswick in particular;
and they express an entire, confidence in the de
termination of her government, to preserve the in
tegrity of the North American possessions in the
settlement of this question. They tender to the
Queen thcr lives and property, in aid of the main- /
tenance of her rights, and for repelling the inva
der from their soil.
Hanks in Ohio.
The Legislature of Ohio have appointed Messrs.
Hatch, Hubbard and Moneypenny as a Board of
Bank Commissioners with authority to visit and
examine, from time to time, the condition of the
banks in the Stale, and in case they shall find
that the banks have violated their charters, to sue
out writs of mandamus against them.
By the new law, the banks are required to
keep specie on baud at all times equal to one
third of their circulation, and the directors arc
hold personally responsible for any violation of
this rule. In case of suspension of specie pay- j
men Is by a bank, the cashier or chief clerk is re- j
| quited to endorse its telusal on every bill which
I shall be presented for payment, and tke bank will }
' | thereafter he hound to pay the same with interest \
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at 12 percent, per annum, until redeemed in gold
and silver. In case of a refusal to pay in specie
fora longer period than thirty days, a writ ot
mandamus is required to he issued, and the hank
closed.— N, Y, Com. Adv,
/
Death ok Hezrkiaii Milks. —Wear cull
ed to the painful duty, to-day, of announcing the
death of Hcitekiah Miles, late of this city, and the
founder, and lor a quarter of a century the editor
and publisher, of the well known weekly Regis
ter. Greatly impaired health, the result, most
probably, of long continued and undue tasking of
the bodily and mental powers, in the conduct of
that useful and valuable record of passing events,
induced Mr. Miles, some two or three years since
to relinquish the publication of the Register and
to s.’ck repose in Wilmington, Delaware, where,
among scenes endeared to Irini by the recollec
tions and assoi iatioas ol early life, he might close
in quiet the evening of his days. It was here,
that after a long illness, his death took place, at an
early hour yesterday morning. As conductor for
so long a period of the Weekly Register, Mr.
Niles earned for himself a high reputation for
sound practical opinions economy, as
well ns for the ease and SfflTly vvitli which he
propagated those opinions, and exerted, without
question, a very powerful influence upon the
course of events, ns fashioned by his fellow men.
A co-lahorator for years with the venerable Cary,
he was the able and indefatigable friend of Home
industry, and the efficient advocate of those mea
sures of national policy, which became embodied
and identified as the American system. His ex
ertions in this great department of Inline industry,
have laid obligations upon his age and country,
that may bo freely acknowledged, and will long
cause his memory to live and flourish in the re
gards of iris fellow countrymen. After a life of
three score and ten, many of the best years of
which had been devoted with a perseverance
rarely equalled, to the cause and the interests of
national industry, this venerable working man,
and fast friend of working men, has at length
gone to his repose; and lie finds his lust resting
place near the homo of his childhood. There is
something touching to the heart, in the termina
tion, in this wise, of a long and eventful and use
ful career.— Haiti more Patriot, 3d ins/.
Tin; Ekkkct Aiiikiaii.—Mr. Walsh, in a re
cent letter from Paris, alludes to the trouble in
Harrisburg, and mentions the following in refer
ence to its etlects abroad :
“It is only ten days ago that I recommended
to two English clergymen, trustees of a sum of
thirty-two thousand pout.d»sterling, Pennsylvania
Government stocks us an eligible investment, up
on the ground of her political stability—of the
higher securities in this respect which her social
and political order, her spirit and interests, and
her general internal condition and habits, seemed
to constitute. Yesterday, I found that the trus
tees were alarmed and deterred by the Governor's
Proclamation, culling out the militia, and the nar
rative of the riots at Harrisburg, as furnished in
the papers which tire packet ship Albany brought
to Havre. I could devise no explanations, or ex
cuses, which they could understand. It is pro
bable that the money will never cross the Atlan
tic.”
“Here, me iinmvoiume
mctcial crisis arc not entirely spent. Distrust re
vives at every signal instance of mob-lew or ordi
nary omen of political convulsion in our country.
Such delinquency as that of Swartwoul and Price,
though not without parallel on both sides of the
channel, aggravates considc ably the general dis
esteem which the majority of the upper and mid
dle European classes are too willing to entertain
for the people of the United States.”
Maine akf.utih. —A letter in the Bostcn Cou
rier dated Bangor, March 27th, gives a solution
of the present state of affairs on the Frontier in
these terms:
The knowing ones at Augusta, have probably
received intimations from Washington, t that Maine
must submit to a conventional hue. Tim. the
general government will sustain her only on these
conditions. That the dispute is too trifling to in
volve the two nations in war, and that Maine
must consent to receive an ample consideration
for this portion of her territory.
Mis 11— A practical Yankee Satire.—
The Nantucket Inquirer tells the following char
acteristic, anecdote concerning the once famous
yankce singing-school master Billings, whose mu
sic bid fair at one time of being indissolubly mar
ried to Dr. Watt’s verse—
While Billings’ compositions were in (lie ze
nith of their popularity, certain publishers acquired
no small income frem their sale. One of these,
at his shop in Boston, projected a signboard into
the street, bearing on cither side the simple in
scriptions, “Billings’ music.” A wag, of the old
er school, having no taste for the fugitive and
rambling innovations of the day, in whiah he af
fected to hear nothing hut discord and jargon, de
termined on inflicting a practical satire upon the
prevailing mania ; and selected the luckless music
seller’s signboard as the bearer of his indignant
juke. He accordingly provided himself with a
couple of stout specimens of the feline race, and
and with a yard of strong codline tied them to
gether hy the vertebral terminations, vu/go tails.
Thus accoutred, lie proceeded at midnight to the
scene of action, and threw his burthens across the
o(Tending protrusion, in such a manner that the
teeth, whiskers,, and claws, of the two cals cane
in contact just below thesign, while their inverted
nether extremes were held inextricably hy the
string above. As may ho imagined, a most de
lectable duct was (he consequence, comprising all
sorts of variations, mewing ajfcllunm, biting agi
tato, spitting ulaccatto, and scratching pizzicattu
—which continued until sunrise, when the pas
sers-hy were greeted with this mischievous illus
tration of the words upuu the signboard—hut the
owner soou stepped forth attd removed botli text
and commentary.
Claim op Property.— lt will p^dN,
r ably be new to many—it was to us yesterday
morning—that a poor journeyman printer, named
Smith Harpending, now a resident of Tennessee,
but formerly of this city, where he is well known,
has instituted in the 11. S. Circuit Court of ibis
District a claim loan immense estate in this city.
His action is brought against “the ministers, el
ders and deacons of the Reformed Protestant
Dutch Church of the city of New York, and Olli
ers;” and the estimated value of the property he
claims is about twenty-five millions of dollars. He
makes his claims as heir at law, in a direct line,
to a tract comprising about sixteen acres, bounded
by Broadway, Maiden Lane, Fulton Nassau and
John-streets. The documents comprising his bill,
of which a copy has been sent us, are very vo
luminous, too much so for perusal; and we ran
offer no further evidence of the support they give
his claim than we ourselves draw from the known
character of his eminent counsel, Messrs, Graham,
V Hoffman and Sandford. — N. Y. Sun, J
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8 TRAM boat and Lii i« Lost. —The steamboat
uthollo from Cincinnati, bound to the Wabash,
feceftfly came in contact with the Peru, a few
miles below the falls, and was instantly sunk. It
is staled that the Othello was cut in two by the
concussion, and when last seen, the hull was up
on one side of the river, and the cabin upon the
oilier. It is reported that several passengers were
lost, some persons say two, others say live. The
boat and cargo, are totally lost. There was an
insurance of $23,000, at different offices in Cin
cinnati.
I 1 iiik in ( Linton. —The Feliciana Whig of
'he 27th nil. mentions the burning of the court
house in Clinton. Captain Robbins late sheriff,
has suffered the loss ot his books accounts, &c..
to the amount of Bor 10,000 dollars. The fire
is stated to have been the work of an incendiary.
I. xtitaonin n a it v Siikkt of P\rmt.— I There
was sent from the paper manufactory belonging
to Messrs. A. Cowan and Hons, at Collinton, last
week, a single sheet of paper, weighing 553
pounds, and upwards of a mile and a half in
length—the breadth was only 60 inches. Were
a ream of paper composed of similar sheets made,
it would weigh 260,500 pounds, or upwards of
120 tons, — Edinburg paper.
It appears from the report of the Hoard of pub
lic works for Illinois, that the internal improve
ment system in that Stale embraces 1342 miles of
railroad, estimated to cost £l 1,01)0,000, The ca
nal from the Illinois river to Lake Michigan will
cost several millions, and it has been in rapid pro
gress for some time.
St'censsFUi. Expeui m t.vr.—The London pa
pers of February 18 mention the safe urriial at
Pernambuco, from Liverpool, after a passage of
47 days, ot the iron ship Ironsides. This was the
first sailing vessel, built of Iron, that was ever sent
from England on a foreign voyage, liy this voy
age the great question of the compasses was sat
isfactorily determined ; throughout the whole lime
they traversed with the same regularity and ac
curacy us on board vessels of the usual construc
tion.
York.— York, the Eborueum of the Homans,
contains about 40,000 inhabitants, and is the
principal city of the north of England though
some trading towns are more populous. York is
198 miles from London,and 201 from Edinburgh.
It is a walled city, and of old, was the second city
in the kingdom. It is situated upon the river
Ouse, and was considered a seaport in the days of
the Romans, Hu.xons, and Normans, when vessels
of 80 or 00 tons could sail up to the bridge, which
is about 70 miles from the sea, Edward the Ist,
in 12119, brought the courts of Justice to York,
where they remained 7 years, when they were re
turned to London. In this monarch's time, Yoik
was considered an English port, which shows the
state of naval achitccturc at that time.— York has
sustained many sieges—its walls have not always
saved it. It was taken by William the Conquer
or, after a(i months siege. In 1644, the parlia
mentary forces under Hir Thou as Fairfax, besie
ged York, and after the battle of Murslon Moor,
him to the parliament for XSOO.odo 11 1^ ,or kinß
title to the 2d son of the king. It is the Sfl’ wau
archbishop, and the records of its ecclesiastical
court, are near y a century older than those of
Canterbury or London.
John Hull, it appears from the subjoined from
a late number of the New Y'ork Express, possess
es at least a share of the roguish talent generally
attributed to brother Jonathan :
A cask of Clover Heed from London, was sold
yesterday by auction, which proved to bo colored
purple, to suit this market. The fraud was de
lected. The holders here knew nothing of the
transaction.
Lee I feu Matches.— A vender of this article
in England, has the following quotation from the
prophets painted on a sign-board over his door, —
•* O Lucifer, how art thou failed,” a penny a
box.”
Fabions in New Yoiik —A correspondent
of I he National Intelligencer furnishes the following
sketch of fashions as they present tkemselves vt ilns
lime in Broadway;
A rough customer, from the West, m • ting me on
the giani-stairs of the big hotel here, observed, with
a very knowing look, llmt the only tiling one got for
nothing in New York was the display of fashion
and fashionables in Broadway. Illy backwoods
man put into language of his own what lias often
occurred to me wlnlt walking ill Ibai great I bon ugh
fare, in which the stroller for amusement or edifiea
lion may ever he finding new loud for Inn or philuao
phy, as im nlally or physically disposed. I think
the fashionable frequenters ol I he pave and the coach
path, who, from Iweho to three o’clock, daily, add
so much to I he life and gaiety of the siieoi, are really
public benefactors; for they keep the lookers-on yet
never-lulling source ol amusement, os rich and va
ried as Ibe more costly entertainments of Ihe aa
lontis, the iho dres, and the thousand oilier show
shops of (helowtr To stand on the great sh psiit
Aslor’s, or the American, the Clarendon, and the
Alher aMirn, and watch the “manners living, as • hey
rise," and pass before the eye like llio shilling (.0111-
Innulions ol the kaleidoscope, is a very favorite mode
pm r passer It: limps, in (onham, at cortniri hours of
the day: and it is really astonishing lo observe flow
quickly any new innovation ol style or custom is
caught up trom Fans or London, by the exqn.sites
of Bond and illeocker streets, U averley and Wash
ington places, and Broadway.
In llie mode of wearing lire hair, for example; the
last loiieli ofeiquisilistn is to w<ar that ornann ulal
appendage in long elf'hicks, if the hair is .•iirtuhle,
nl tbe ends,and lying rner the shoulders « la do cither
This looks queerly enough, with a coal of modern
eul, as you may well judge—(bee monstrous erinose
musses depending voluminously over him k broad
ciollt and a mini stock; hnl|how is I ho elf et height
ened, when there hangs down, lo mrei the "love
lock,"an elaborate moustache, with whiskers and
imperial lo match ! flow iinlimnun Ibo man, wear
ing all this hair, con rives to make I imself appear,
you may imagine, To my eye, be certainly seems,
\inibis guise,to have lost ilicclium which every man
ought to have losay, with the proud boinun," llonw
sum ; buttonb uthilu me alien pula!"
But it is not the hair ah ne which lias become ibe
subject of recant fashionable innovation '1 bey arc
making coat* of be most odd and outre cut, accord
ing to ibe latest importation oflhe modes They
seem lo be made with ibe least possible retcrence lo
btauly of shaj e, comeliness of fit, or eomlort to the
wearer, and mure neany lo rest ruble the labiird of a
herald then any thing else in art. It is line that only
the iiltrojnis in these nutters have, as yet, ns-urn
ed this whimsical coal; but, knowing full well, thin,
ns Shakespeare lias said, •- new customs, be inner
so ridiculous, nay, though they be unmanly, slid are
followed,”! look fouvard lo ibe speedy aoopiioncd
llie absurd fashion, not only here, but nil over the
land,Cloaks too! The last style is lo cut these gar
rne - Is made of the most dehe.sie elolb, straight in
(rout, booked or buttoned close from the collar (low n
wards, reaching only lolbe knee s, and rube won
with the arms oflhe victim kept closely confined
to his sides, lest a wrinkle or a gather destroy the
quaker-like primness of this d.w kind of pr rpendic
ular over-oil And then, the canes 1 . Made of veil, w
1 1
• * ***•
un'hli*'; f ru , rV r* ,U1II, H" pnllnm, terminating
unli (i dog s I .or,,1 0 ( various species, mid glass I rails
loreyp*. J Ills is ilio lon mm; mill llius ninos arc
I e man rnnes mdood ,io malin a wretched l.niin ptm
—lor which excuse mo it yon can!;
!‘°V; ~,e I mude ladies 111 high life to drive
rough Broadway accompanied hy pel pui pic»,
( i human, bill ennino,) ofevervdescr.ption. You
jumol iinngin how piclurt mjho ihosoo.,o; a carriage,
With osonli honnoil lininmoi oloih, soivnnls in rich
livery, inosl unexceptionable hoiscs ami hnmosH,
and coma,,nog two or three inmnics, besides a dog
ol Iho ( hrr.es the Second spaniel lined, his loro,
paws on Iho edge of the window, and his head loll
ing lorih most n qaisilivoly, relun.ing ibn nods of
, passers-by o;i I lio pave, ns Ihcy make iheir
Hiilnnit m ill fair occupants of the ei-rnh! Such is
ih ' custom, and ihu dogsellers nro reaping a rich
harvest. Hut no more, nl present, o* what (he mar
curml Merentio was w out lo call “Ilose strange flies,
th so fashion-mongers?”
t iiinksk Maukktivu. It is very revelling,says
the imllrnr(lithe Kan Uni in China,to the feelings
olthe Lmoponn, upon I,is first visit lo China, to
observe lb ■ natives preparing to make their meals
upon those i oniestiek animals which he has always
been accustom, dlo look upon with a degree of.
fondness and iilfcolion The dog. especially, baa
always been considered the fried and companion
ufman; the only friend, somtuimes. that is left be
baa been descried by the rest of the world, Put the
craving appetite and calls of hunger w ill generally
overthrow the stiongest fits of affection and grat
itude. It was Huts m the siege of Jerusalem, when
the starving mother fed upon the flesh of her own.
murdered t tiild ; and a slid more app op.late illus
fraii. n is given, in ibai true and llinbful sk, irk from
nature Cord Byron has tlrae n of the shipwreck of
l)on Juan,ami which is founded on an actual fact.
1 he C liineiD ol the upper ranks tiro as ihstidious and
expensive in tficir food as any cell, r people, vvlti e
the lower orders are altogether ns filthy This evi
detnly ntises from flic goal scarcity of piovt ions
among so many millions ol pi o; le, and llui neces
sity, ofsnslainiiig nature bv wluilever can possibly
afford any nourislitret. Tbs rmittiaily loads, in
lime, to a lofal loss of iliscriminat on a- in llieqnai
lily ol food eaten, and an animnl intfte marltei vvoii tl
therefore, lie valued nnly in propoiiion lo the quan
tity of flesh upon il,o bones, with mi any re sere net.
lo ils flavour or slaiool prtservniioi'. A gentleman
waking tlir.ingb the mniket on, day, nl Canton,
observed that a pheasant and a cat were pat up (or
sale at flic same price; and you will In (|nentiy ob
serve, ill the some place, dugs, tits, and rats sold
indiscriminately, according to their weight
Substitute ton Tint Sun -The newly in
vented light of M Cundiii, on which experimenle
were recently made at I'arts, is an imp oved mod
ificqtion' of the well known invention ol Lienicna t
Drummond. While Drurnmoml poarg a stream of
oxygen gas thiongh spirits ol wine, upon iinslukeil
lime, Gaiidin makes use ol a in ire oiliu.iul kind of
oxygen, which he conducts through burning essence
oftiirpcn inn. The Drummond ligh' is IfllHJ times
stronger than that ofburmrig gi« ; the (.audio light
is, we arc assured by the inventor, as - Irong as that
olthe sun, or ihirly thmuem.l limes stronger than
pas, and ol course, ten times mure so limn that of
Ihe L'rumtniiud. '1 he method by which M Gaudin
propopses in turn the new invention to useis s'ligti
larly striking. Ito pnipnacs I-erect in the island
oflhol’oint Nenf, in the mi.lcll:- of iho Seine and
centre ol Paris, a lighl-hon»c, five hundred feet high,
in which is In bo piarudu light from n bundled
thousand Inn million gns pipes strong—the power
lo be varied ns ibn ni. lit is dgbl or dink Paris
will thus enjoy a sor of p rp. luai day; nod as soon,
ns the sun of the heavens has set, the sun ol the
Pont Nenf w ill rise.— London Mrtiolitir s Magazint
COMMERCIAL.
Cotton. —We reported in our limsravmmi-ir..——-
' the stock on hand, including all on ship board not
cleared; since then wc have received 7,950 hales;
and shipped to Liverpool 4,414 bales, to Ncw-4ork
ox7 bales, to Port and SI bales,and to Ncw-Orleans
333 bales, making in all 5,545 bales; leaving the
stock on band, including all on ship board not clear
ed, 71,030 bales, against 89,329 bales same lime last
* season. (lurstatement exhibits a dcliciency incur
receipts thus far against last year of 37,028 bales.
The receipts of the week nearly correspond with
those of last year, an unexpected quantity having
arrived, in consequence of the tise of the smaller
watercourses, enabling the flats which usually ar
rive in all this mouth and May, to anticipate the
season, as well as the lowness of freight, inducing
the planters to urge forward the remnants of their.
•' crops.
Curmarkct since last report hat been verj steady,
unmarked by any excitement —as wo have noted
in our general remarks. The sales have not ex
ceeded 0000 bales. We continue our quotations of
last week, although small sales have bten made
under, but the transactions have been, so limited as.
to impart a nominal character to them at present. —
Holders of the largest stocks are linn, and not dis
l«jsed to yield. *
Hood and choice 17 a IS, good ftiir 1(1/a 16/ ,
fair lo.'/a 10,middling lo a lot, oidinary 13{ a 14/.
In our monetary oiiiyrs, we are depressed to.
about as low an ebb,as wc can well roach; and if
any change docs occur, we ought in the usuak
course of human events to anticipate from Ibis fea
ture that it woubl be fur the better; but we can
perceive no source from whence relief is lo reach
us.
New York, April 4.
Colfon —This market has been singularly quiet
since our last remarks, notwithstanding the reduc
tion in prices then,noticed. The sales reach a few
hundred bales only at 13 a l(i. The arrivals have
been about 5000 bales. At Augusta, on the 28th;
the market continued very dull. Sales extended
to 375 bales only at extremes of 14/ a 15/. Ibe
scarcity of money was beginning to be severely felt
in this market. At Charleston, on the 29th, there
was a good demand for inferior ctoton. Sales
reached in all 5132 bags at 13 a 17tc, which were
folly former rates. At New Orleans, on the 23d,
there was but little doing, and that at former rates.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, April 8.
Cleared. —Hr. ship Columbus, Pentrieth, Liver
pool ; ship Watchman, Davis, New Castle, Me ; schr.
Excel, Sellaw, Philadelphia.
Arrived yesterday, —Ship Coriolanus, Merrill,
Philadelphia.
Departed. —Steamboat Hamburg, Wood, Augusta.
Charleston, April 9.
Arrived yesterday, —Hr. ship Ann Hall, Tucker,.
Liverpool ; hr. barque Jupiter, M’Kwen Liverpool;
brig (j in nil Turk, Trout, .New York; schr. Panta
loon, Kirwan, Bt. Marks; steam packet Georgia
Hollins, Haltimere.
Cleared. —Ship Rowland, M’Lcllun, Liverpool;
barque Ospray, Bartlett, Havana ; brig John C.
Calhoun, Bullen, Havana; brig Pleiades, Lowell,
West Indies ; brig Tacon, Green, West Indies.
IVcnt la sea yesterday —Line brig Almcna,
Doanc, New Orleans; line brig Gen Sumter, lien
nett, Baltimore ; schr. David ColFm, Lewis, Phila
delphia.
WEUTEKBiJINSUBANCE & TUI ST CO.
Capital $1,01)0,000 —$500,000 paid in.
Private property of Stockholders liable.
riNHE undersigned having been appointed Agent
for the Western Insurance &'t rust ■ ompany
. of Columbus, Ga., is prepared to take Fire, Marine,
inland Navigation and Fife Risks, nl as low rater,
as any other responsible Company.
All losses sustained by this agency will bo
promptly adjusted here.
WM. M. D’ANTTGNAC
Augusta, February. 20 'w’.m Agent,